Just three months af­ter los­ing his moth­er, a Rio Claro man was hit with an­oth­er tragedy af­ter his house was de­stroyed by fire. 

Now, 42-year-old Ramesh Deen is try­ing to re­build his home, but he’s seek­ing help from the pub­lic since he is un­em­ployed and comes from mod­est means. 

Deen said he lived with his moth­er but since her pass­ing in Jan­u­ary, he had been liv­ing alone. 

He said he was not at home when fire en­gulfed his house at 31 Mile Mark, Tabaquite Road, on April 19.   

Deen claimed the fire was de­lib­er­ate­ly set, but he has not yet re­ceived the of­fi­cial cause of the fire from the Fire Ser­vice.

He said every­thing he owned — from fur­ni­ture and ap­pli­ances to doc­u­ments and cloth­ing — was lost in the blaze.

Still try­ing to re­cov­er from los­ing his home, Deen said it’s been chal­leng­ing, and while he is tem­porar­i­ly stay­ing with his sis­ter, he des­per­ate­ly wants to re­build his home. 

He had lived there for over 30 years. 

Any­one will­ing to as­sist can con­tact 295-4012 and 399-2701.

- Sascha Wil­son & Kellyann Lemessy